In case anyone takes over maintenance of ASDF in the future, I wrote this mind dump on some of its more stuble "magic" behavior: https://fare.livejournal.com/190738.html
Thanks to Eric Timmons for the prompting...
PS: there are relatedly a few bug fixes in 3.3.2.5 — thanks and congratulations again to Robert Goldman for his careful reviewing and testing.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org It is deplorable that many people think that the best way to improve the world is to forbid something. However, they're morally more advanced than the people who think the best way to improve the world is to kill somebody. — John McCarthy
On 5 Aug 2018, at 17:31, Faré wrote:
In case anyone takes over maintenance of ASDF in the future, I wrote this mind dump on some of its more stuble "magic" behavior: https://fare.livejournal.com/190738.html
Thanks to Eric Timmons for the prompting...
PS: there are relatedly a few bug fixes in 3.3.2.5 — thanks and congratulations again to Robert Goldman for his careful reviewing and testing.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org It is deplorable that many people think that the best way to improve the world is to forbid something. However, they're morally more advanced than the people who think the best way to improve the world is to kill somebody. — John McCarthy
I think we should probably clear out all the MRs *except* the syntax rationalization, then release bug fix 3.3.3, and then move to get the syntax branch integrated as a release candidate for 3.4.
I think the syntax isolation is a big enough change in behavior that it merits being 3.4
Cheers, R
I think we should probably clear out all the MRs except the syntax rationalization, then release bug fix 3.3.3, and then move to get the syntax branch integrated as a release candidate for 3.4.
I think the syntax isolation is a big enough change in behavior that it merits being 3.4
I wholeheartedly agree. There's just !99 left, which contains at least one important fix (defining call-without-redefinition-warnings in asdf.asd, not just uiop.asd, since we won't be loading uiop.asd anymore). After that, I believe we should release 3.3.3 as a bug-fixing milestone, where the 3.3 release gets really stable (also, half way to 6.6.6). And then move on with 3.4.0 that would include syntax-control !86 which I believe is ready, with its conservative take on using the initial readtable by default.
The other MRs out there are not ready: the Genera one !84 awaits input from someone who actually develops on Genera and could fix the CLOS issues with ASDF 3.3 there. The !83 on process-status is a WIP that the late author, Elias Pipping won't make further progress on. :-( RIP.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org You think that by not releasing your in-house software, you save engineering resources. You only get yourself out of the loop.
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